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Re: [scrumdevelopment] Coaching advice: team seeming to lack a sense of urgency

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Simon Kirk

Hi George ... Yeah, I understood exactly what you meant, I just didn t make myself very clear - and I knew you nicked it from an earlier discussion in the list

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, Feb 26, 2009

Hi George

On 26 Feb 2009, at 02:03, George Dinwiddie wrote:

> Simon Kirk wrote:
>>> You can ask questions. You can choose exercises that might tend to
>>> surface it. For example, you might do a timeline exercise /on/ the
>>> burndown chart, so the stickies people contribute are in context of
>>> the
>>> progress or lack of it.
>>
>> Yes, I've used timeline before, and may well do again for this
>> Sprint,
>> particularly stickies on the line. I've always liked that idea, and
>> it
>> seems very appropriate to this situation.
>
> I just want to be clear on my suggestion (which really isn't mine, but
> which I stole from a posting a while back on the retrospective list).
> It's not just using a timeline, but using the sprint burndown as a
> backdrop for the timeline. There might be some interesting
> juxtapositions there.

Yeah, I understood exactly what you meant, I just didn't make myself
very clear - and I knew you nicked it from an earlier discussion in
the list :)

But it was a useful reminder about a technique that as you rightly
pointed out, may well yield useful information, so thanks.

Simon

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